Dennis Hinrichsen’s most recent work is Skin Music, co-winner of the Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press. His previous books include Rip-tooth, Kurosawa’s Dog , and Detail fromThe Garden of Earthly Delights. Other awards include the Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Prize from Map Literary for Electrocution, A Partial History as well as the Third Coast Poetry Prize and a Best of the Net Award. He lives in Lansing, Michigan where he is serving as the area’s first Poet Laureate.